TIL 243: What the Bible says about CoDependency (feat. Cheryl Bell)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
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🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Featuring: 1. How does a biblical view of codependency differ from a secular view? 2. How does Scripture describe the consequences of this heart attitude and behavioral response? 3. How does God respond to those who chose codependence over God dependence?
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| 0:00.0 | What the Bible says about codependency on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified |
| 0:17.6 | Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:24.2 | I think this is an important topic for this week, and Dr. Sam Stevens, our director of Training Center Certification, was able to sit down with Dr. Cheryl Bell to discuss this very important topic that floats around in our culture, especially in the world of counseling. |
| 0:40.9 | Cheryl Bell is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where she teaches in the women's studies and counseling programs. |
| 0:48.2 | She also counsels women who attend the institution. |
| 0:51.7 | She loves to see God transform his children's lives by his spirit and through his word in the institution. She loves to see God transform his children's lives by his spirit and through |
| 0:56.7 | his word in the classroom and in the counseling room. I appreciate Cheryl so much. She was a student |
| 1:03.5 | along with me in the Ph.D. program at Southwestern, and I know you're going to appreciate the |
| 1:08.1 | conversation that she and Dr. Stevens will have on this subject of codependency. |
| 1:13.9 | Well, Dr. Bell, it is always a pleasure to speak with you. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm glad you're here with us today at our podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | And so we're covering a topic that I think people hear a lot about, but they may not fully understand. |
| 1:25.3 | And that's the concept of codependency. |
| 1:28.4 | Maybe to get us started, could you give us a definition, or listeners a definition or understanding of what is codependency? |
| 1:35.1 | The term actually originated through popular psychology in the late 70s in the early 1980s. |
| 1:41.3 | And initially it was a fairly limited term that talked about the excessive reliance of one |
| 1:46.7 | individual on another. And the context in which that usually happened was either addiction or |
| 1:52.3 | illness. And since that time, the term has grown to include any kind of relationship where |
| 2:00.1 | there's excessive dependence and neediness |
| 2:02.3 | on the part of one individual in the relationship on another. |
| 2:06.2 | That's interesting. |
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